Murphy Brown

About Murphy Brown

Murphy Brown (Candice Bergen) is a recovering alcoholic who returns to the fictional newsmagazine FYI for the first time following a stay at the Betty Ford Clinic residential treatment center. Over 40 and single, she is sharp tongued and hard as nails.

Murphy Brown is a comedy series made for CBS. It ran for 10 seasons and 247 episodes between November 1988 and May 1998. That is around 25 episodes a season.

Candice Bergen appears as Murphy Brown, Faith Ford as Corky Sherwood, Joe Regalbuto as Frank Fontana, and Charles Kimbrough as Jim Dial.

Shelv files it under journalist, TV news anchor, and sitcom.

The Newsroom, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and The Michael J. Fox Show make useful companions to Murphy Brown. It scores 6.5 out of 10 from 94 TMDB voters and it carries a TV-PG rating.